...discuss below) is his diagnosis of Ignatius Loyola's attempt to make the love of God the "dominant good": "Although to subordinate all our aims to one end does...still strikes us as irrational, or more likely as mad" (pp. 5534). 8 Rawls, "Justice as Fairness," pp. 225-6. The suggestion that there are many philosophical...

...ought finally to aim at the one goal of serving the glory of God. Although such a view, Rawls says, "does not strictly speaking violate the principles...strikes us as irrational, or more likely as mad." 43 Rawls tends to make the argument here too easy for himself by setting up a false dichotomy: either...

...God be a suitable definite end; Rawls finds that such an end is vague and ambiguous and entails that "The self is disfigured and put in the service of one of its ends for the sake of the system" (Sections 83 and 84 in Chapter 9). But Rawls admits that his own theory does not provide...

...discuss below) is his diagnosis of Ignatius Loyola's attempt to make the love of God the "dominant good": "Although to subordinate all our aims to one end does...still strikes us as irrational, or more likely as mad" (PP- 553-4)cal institutions, so we need to bracket many standard topics of philosophical inquiry. For...

...for MacIntyre in Rawls's open embrace of an heterogeneous conception of the good with the remark that "although to subordinate all our aims to one end does...still strikes us as irrational or more likely as mad." In saying this "Rawls equates the human self with the liberal self" that "moves from sphere to sphere,...

...learn to celebrate it, as Rawls does. 'Human good is heterogeneous, because the self is heterogeneous. Although to subordinate all our aims to one end does not strictly speaking violate the principle of rational choice ... it stUI strikes us as irrational, or more likely as mad. The self...

...Maclntyre quotes Rawls: "Human good is heterogeneous because the aims of the self are heterogeneous. Although to subordinate all our aims to one end does...still strikes us as irrational or more likely as mad." Finally, liberalism has its own distinctive conception of justice. If conceptions of the good are not...

...because the aims of the self are heterogenous", accordingly, "to subordinate all our aims to one end strikes us as irrational, or more likely as mad The self is disfigured " In contradistinction to what is held by teleological doctrines, "it is not our aims that primarily...

...single highest good. "Human good is heterogeneous because the aims of the self are heteroegeneous. Although to subordinate all our aims to one end does...speaking violate the principles of rational choice (not the counting principles anyway), it still strikes us as irrational, or more likely as mad. The...

...267 & 268. See also 271. Similarly, Rawls dismisses thinkers with radically different perspectives: "Although to subordinate all our aims to one end does...strikes us as irrational, or more likely as mad." John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971), 553-4. 7. Nietzsche's...